Let’s give him some little baggies and have him fix it himself. Maybe incentivize him with the idea that you could build forty or fifty high end condos in the wedge under the bridge. Could call it Trolle Heights West.

More Tents went up last night, and these are some scary dudes in there. There is a man that is constantly brandishing a switch blade knife and speaking gibberish. He made sure I saw it a couple times when I was near.

On Tuesday one of them took a gigantic crap on the sidewalk in full view of people and cars driving by. Maybe its the same guy Frankie saw a few days before.

I called the police this morning at 1am when two men dressed head to toe in black were trying to force the chain and lock on the gate so they could bring their bikes through. They worked on it for 10 minutes as I was on the phone with 911. Police never came or called me.

I submitted a report through the SPD website. Was careful to note only stuff I have personally observed, but open drug use, brandishing a switchblade and defecating on the sidewalk shouldn’t be acceptable in any location, but least of all an elementary school.

I get hives thinking about someone with a mental illness or in a substance fugue, wandering into their playground or into the building itself.

I’d encourage folks who share this concern and have witnessed worrying behavior (living in a tent is not in and of itself concerning) to submit reports also.

I’m a daily bike commuter who passes under freeway every day in a.m. and p.m.
Yesterday evening a 4-squad-car + 1 fire-truck response was happening on the hillside during rush hour. Looked like an EMT situation so I assumed it was an OD, but hopefully not something violent. All my kiddos are at JSIS so I’ve started keeping an eye out for needles and thankfully haven’t seen any yet along 40th but the garbage is definitely starting to pile up. Good to know about report option via spd website.

I raked up a bunch of garbage under the freeway today. One of the few remaining tents left so I took the opportunity to make it look a little nicer. I am actually having trouble selling my house right now.

The filth from just a few tents in less than a month is appalling. There are a thousand needles in what I raked up. I am not exaggerating. If you dont believe me just go under there and look at what the rake left behind. There are orange caps everywhere and most of the needles are raked up behind the jersey barrier. Some are still just in piles and scattered.

I don’t know if the developers benefit so much, directly – if they can’t do something about it after they acquire the property, it’s going keep value down when they sell it too.

Murray though is sure willing to try to capitalize on it. When he came the University District last summer to make a speech about the high rise upzone he and Rob Johnson are giving the UW and Vulcan, he made it a homeless housing issue, which is so far from any connection with reality that it illustrates the contempt city hall has for its constituency, who they think will swallow anything.